EP0001744A1 - Gerät zum Nehmen von Bissabdrücken - Google Patents

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EP0001744A1
EP0001744A1 EP78100914A EP78100914A EP0001744A1 EP 0001744 A1 EP0001744 A1 EP 0001744A1 EP 78100914 A EP78100914 A EP 78100914A EP 78100914 A EP78100914 A EP 78100914A EP 0001744 A1 EP0001744 A1 EP 0001744A1
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  • This invention relates to bite registration in the human mouth, and'particularly to the task of obtaining a bite registration with the jaws in true centricity upon occlusion of the teeth, as is required for example in producing good fitting dentures.
  • the problem is well recognized and prior attempts to solve it are described in patents of Jones, No.'s 2,713,202; 3,574,259; and 3,987,548, among others. Jones uses bibs of gauze to carry impression paste.
  • Beck Patent No. 4,003,132 is another example of the use of textile web to carry dental impression medium, on one or both sides of the web.
  • 2,633,637 describes a high-spot marker using a textile, paper or cellophane coated on one or both sides with a soft wax to cover a marking material.
  • Shpuntoff Patent No. 3,604,116 describes a proposed improvement in the high spot marker of Lucia wherein the carrier for bite waxes and the like is made of a strong pliable sheet of material having a thickness of less than 0.020 mm. The mechanical strength of the sheet material must be much greater than that of the impression material (column 1, lines 50-56); metallic foils of gold and aluminum, and non-metallic plastic foils are suggested.
  • Shpuntoff states (column 1, lines 38-44) that the membranes have normal thickness of about 0.030 to 0.035 mm. and can be reduced in thickness by slightly less than 0.010 mm. by forces available in biting so that a separation of the upper and lower teeth by less than 0.020 mm. may be compensated by compression of the periodontal membranes.
  • the present invention proposes a carrier for impression material which imposes the least possible stimuli on the proprioceptors.
  • a carrier for impression material which imposes the least possible stimuli on the proprioceptors.
  • One example is a frangible film of a plastic material perforated over the major portion of its area so that it is largely foraminous.
  • Such a carrier can be coated on one or both sides with im- pressior material and, when placed in the mouth, will function primarily as a carrier for the impression material, and will exert a minimum of reactive force on the impression material in response to interdental pressure.
  • Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, show a carrier 10 for bite registration material (shown in Figs. 4 and 5).
  • a foraminous film 12 has perforations 14 over the major portion of its surfaces 16, 18.
  • a frame 22 is affixed to the film at its entire outer periphery 24 and at the quadrant portions 26, 28 of its inner periphery.
  • the frame at the outer periphery 24 is shaped to the outer periphery of a full dental arch; at the inner periphery portions 26, 28 the frame is shaped to the inner periphery of the respective posterior quadrants.
  • the film 12 is generally U-shaped and spans the frame across the regions 32, 34 of the lateral posterior teeth, that is, at the quadrants, and extends from the frame at the outer oerinhery 24 in the region 36 of the anterior teeth toward the frame at the inner periphery 26, 28, where the film has a free edge 38 extending between two free ends 46, 48 of the frame.
  • a handle 44 extends from the frame at its outer anterior periphery 24, in the region 36 of the anterior teeth.
  • the frame 22 can be made in two like parts 22.1 and 22.2 between which the film 12 is held, as in a sandwich.
  • the frame parts 22.1 and 22.2 can be made of any of several suitable materials, such as plastics, paper or metal foils.
  • the frame parts 22.1 and 22.2 can be attached to the film by any suitable adhesive material that 22.2 can be attached to the film by any suitable adhesive material that is non-toxic.
  • the film and frame parts are made of the same material, they can be integral. If both are of the same thermoplastic material they can be attached by heating the frame parts and film between them to the temperature at which they will fuse or can be pressed together, and then cooling them; i.e.: by a form of plastic welding.
  • Figure 3 shows the device as it appears in side view in the region 34 of one quadrant, where the frame parts 28.1 and 28.2 at the inner periphery support the film 12, these parts terminating in the free ends 48.1 and 48.2.
  • the handle 44 is also in two parts 44.1 and 44.2 with the film 12 between them; although the film 12 is shown without perforations in the handle portion, it can be perforated in which case any adhesive cement or the like used to attach the frame parts to the film would pass through the perforations and fasten the frame parts directly together.
  • the device can be made for full dental-arch bite registration, with provision for separating it into sections that can be used for partial-arch bite registration, as is shown in figure 1.
  • Dashed lines A-A, B-B, C-C, D-D, and E-E each traversing the device 10 from the outer periphery 24 to the inner periphery, represent lines along which the device can be weakened, or cut, for separating it into such sections.
  • the device will provide two half-sections each with a portion of the handle 44, suitable for right-half-arch, or left-half-arch bite registration.
  • the device will provide a smaller portion suitable for taking a bite-registration impression of a quadrant, including bicuspids or pre-molars, and molars.
  • the frame at the outer periphery will extend forward so that the frame end 24' formed at the parting line can be used as a handle.
  • a smaller section parted on line D-D or E-E would be useful for taking an impression of a partial quadrant consisting of molars.
  • the frame 22 can be weakened along lines A-A, B-B, C-C, D-D and E-E, to facilitate separating the device 10 into parts.
  • the frame can be grooved along a line, as shewn at 52.1 and 52.2 in Fig. 6 which is on line A-A.
  • the center anterior portion 36 of the film 12 can be removed.
  • Pastes for taking bite registrations are available in forms which are soft when applied, and then harden in the mouth responsive to hygroscopic changes.
  • the paste 54 shown in figure 4 may be such a paste, or any other suitable paste. Layers of the paste are applied to both sides 16, 18 of the film 12 and the paste extends through the perforations 14.
  • the film material separating the perforations, as shown at 56, 56, is thin also in the plane of the film, so that the film is readily frangible when the occlusal surfaces of the maxillary and m d ndibular arches apply pressure to the paste 54.
  • the holes 14, if round may have a diameter "d" between about 1.5 mm.
  • the film 12 itself may be about 0.020 mm. thick.
  • the nerves that are sensitive to touch called “proprio-ceptors”, will alter the bite, however minutely, when they feel pressure. For that reason, a carrier for the paste which is made of gauze'or other woven fiber material, or of a film which is strong enough to exert a back pressure such as Shpuntoff's is not suitable for taking impressions with the highest fidelity to the existing bite of a pa-tient.
  • the film 12 is readily frangible where present between occluding teeth, so as to minimize creating a reaction which will bring these nerves into play.
  • the film 12 shall function, for all practical purposes, solely as a carrier for the paste, creating a minimum of reactive force on the paste 54 in response to interdental pressure.
  • the present invention thus provides a greater sensitivity to the contours of the occlusal surfaces than has heretofore been available, and provides a tool enabling the skilled restorative dentist to make fine adjustments in a restoration.
  • Figure 5 shows an arrangement useful for making wax impressions of a bite.
  • the wax 64 is preferably a wax that is slow to set up, in order to provide adequate time to prepare the bite registration device and to take the impression. Ordinary dental waxes are made sticky by heating them, and become very hard and hrittle when cooked.
  • the film 12 is nreferably coated on each side 16, 18 with a layer 66, 68, respectively, of an adhesive material, having suitable nontoxic properties. These layers are very thin.
  • the adhesive serves to aid the perforations 14 in holding the wax to the foil, and thereby make it possible to use a wax that is not itself sticky.
  • Such a wax can respond to fine details in the occlusal surfaces of confronting teeth without sticking to the teeth. In combination with the readily frangible foil 12, the wax can provide superior sensitivity to such fine details.
  • a suitable wax for this purpose is that known as "Iowa” wax, a paraffin wax which is translucent when hard and opaque when soft, and which softens when heated. This wax is an accepted dental material, as recognized by the American Dental Association.
  • a prefabricated structure according to Figure 5, without the frame 22, is illustrated schematically in figure 7, with a protective ehclosure 72 which is intended to be removed before the device is used.
  • This device can be kept at room temperature or in a refrigerator prior to use, and to use it, after removing the enclosure 72 it may be dipped in water at about 140°F to soften the wax 64 without causing it to flow; this condition will become apparent when the wax becomes opaque.
  • the device is then placed to take the desired impression, the opposing arches or sections are closed on it, and then cold water may be applied to set the wax hard; that condition will become apparent when the wax becomes translucent.
  • the frangible foil 12 can be made of a paper material, a plastics material or a metal foil.
  • the strength of the foil material itself is removed as a consideration by making the foil into a web by perforating it, for example as described above, so that the foil material between perforations is readily frangible.
  • the impression material extends through the perforations so that in large measure the device is substantially entirely impression material adapted to be held in place by a carrier which has little or no significant ability to bring the proprioceptors into play when it is used in the mouth of a patient. While the frame 22 is useful for handling and manipulating the device, the invention contemplates that devices employing it may be supplied in the form of sheets or pieces without frames, in particular if the impression material is of a type that is adequately firm .
  • both devices which are coated with impression material by the dentist just prior to use, and prefabricated devices combining impression material and a frangible carrier, are within the seope of this invention.
  • a frangible carrier 12 will then be coated on each side with a thin layer of a plaster which hardens, and an accurate cast of the bite can be made.
  • the particular form of perforations used is widely variable; holes or slits can be used, holes being preferred to minimize the quantity of carrier film that will be present.
  • the perforations 14 may take any desired shape - e.g.: round, square, rectangular, triangular or parallelogram.
  • the septal thickness in distance "s" should be small enough to assure that in use the carrier will minimally stimulate the proprioceptors associated with the teeth of which an occlusal impression is to be taken; preferably there will be no noticeable stimulation of these nerves, and the fidelity or accuracy of the impression will be more reliable than has up to now been possible.

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EP0267515A2 (de) * 1986-11-10 1988-05-18 Dental Ventures of America Inc. Wegwerfmarkierungsvorrichtung

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US2583170A (en) * 1949-06-07 1952-01-22 Edwin H Getz Dental tray
US2895219A (en) * 1958-05-12 1959-07-21 Russell J Jones Bite tray
US3604116A (en) * 1970-01-08 1971-09-14 Harry Shpuntoff Dental impression wafer
US3822473A (en) * 1973-06-12 1974-07-09 R Jones Bib and combination thereof with bite tray

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US3574259A (en) * 1969-11-06 1971-04-13 Russel J Jones Device for obtaining impression of occlusal surfaces of the teeth in centric occlusion

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US2583170A (en) * 1949-06-07 1952-01-22 Edwin H Getz Dental tray
US2895219A (en) * 1958-05-12 1959-07-21 Russell J Jones Bite tray
US3604116A (en) * 1970-01-08 1971-09-14 Harry Shpuntoff Dental impression wafer
US3822473A (en) * 1973-06-12 1974-07-09 R Jones Bib and combination thereof with bite tray

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EP0267515A2 (de) * 1986-11-10 1988-05-18 Dental Ventures of America Inc. Wegwerfmarkierungsvorrichtung
EP0267515A3 (de) * 1986-11-10 1989-07-19 Dental Ventures of America Inc. Wegwerfmarkierungsvorrichtung

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